Shadow Flowers (2021)
• October 27th, 2021 • 1h 49min
Documentary
Overview
Ryun-hee Kim, a North Korean housewife, was forced to come to South Korea and became its citizen against her will. As her seven years of struggle to go back to her family in North Korea continues, the political absurdity hinders her journey back to her loved ones. The life of her family in the North goes on in emptiness, and she fears that she might become someone, like a shadow, who exists only in the fading memory of her family.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Time of Our Lives
Released on: 2009-04-11
Documentary
A documentary that tells the story of Choi Hyun-sook, the first out lesbian parliamentarian candidat...
The Fantastic
Released on: 2021-10-15
Documentary
In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch ill...
K-Classics Generation
Released on: 2020-06-01
Documentary, Music
The film traces the career of some of the winners of this new generation nicknamed the "K-Classics G...
White Jungle
Released on: 2011-12-01
Documentary
It is year 2011 and the government still talks of economic growth through medical care under the tab...
A Postcard from Pyongyang
Released on: 2019-09-26
Documentary
"A Postcard from Pyongyang" is a journey into a deeply enigmatic and completely isolated country tha...
Blue Butterfly Effect
Released on: 2017-06-22
Documentary
The small county of Seongju staged protests against the THAAD. Young mothers led protests from conce...
Ryeohaeng
Released on: 2019-08-08
Documentary
A group of women climbs a summer mountain situated in South Korea. They are refugees who have settle...
Assassins
Released on: 2021-08-12
Documentary, Crime
True crime meets global spy thriller in this gripping account of the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, ...
The Red Princess
Released on: 2022-04-04
Documentary
Who is Kim Yo-jong? In a context of maximum tensions between North Korea and the United States, Pier...
North Korea's Secret Slaves: Dollar Heroes
Released on: 2018-10-27
Documentary, Drama
Shrouded in secrecy and notoriously cash-strapped the North Korean regime has resorted to running on...
Beyond Utopia
Released on: 2023-10-23
Documentary, History
A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they ris...
The Reservoir Game
Released on: 2017-09-07
Documentary
An investigative reporter seeks to expose the whereabouts of a slush fund belonging to the former pr...
Homes Apart: Korea
Released on: 1991-01-02
Documentary
They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the...
Crossing the Line
Released on: 2006-10-16
Documentary
In 1962, a U.S. soldier sent to guard the peace in South Korea deserted his unit, walked across the ...
The Rainbow Passage
Released on: 2020-02-21
Documentary
Following a year in Cadance and Amanda's gender transition, this intimate documentary charts not onl...
Family in the Bubble
Released on: 2018-12-20
Documentary
My parents were real estate developers and dealers in the 1980s. They achieved the ‘middle class dre...
A State of Mind
Released on: 2005-08-10
Documentary, Music
Two young North Korean gymnasts prepare for an unprecedented competition in this documentary that of...
To Kill Alice
Released on: 2019-08-08
Documentary
Eunmi, a woman who underwent intense anti-communist education while she grew up in South Korea, live...